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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 49
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Judgment and destruction shall come upon the Ammonites, Edom, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.
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Concerning</span> the Ammonites, thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Hath Israel no sons?  hath he no heir?  why <i>then</i> doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 20; Ezek. 25: 5 (4-5); Amos 1: 14.">Rabbah</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 28.">Ammonites</a>; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/49/2c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR villages.">daughters</a> shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 7.">captivity</a>, <i>and</i> his priests and his princes together.
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Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?  that trusted in her <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 7: 6.">treasures</a>, <i>saying,</i> Who shall come unto me?
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Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
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And afterward I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR turn away, remove.">bring</a> again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Concerning <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 1; Jer. 25: 21; Lam. 4: 21; Ezek. 25: 13 (12-14); Amos 1: 11; Obad. 1: 1 (1-14).">Edom</a>, thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts; <i>Is</i> wisdom no more in Teman?  is counsel perished from the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prudence.">prudent</a>?  is their wisdom vanished?
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Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time <i>that</i> I will visit him.
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If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave <i>some</i> gleaning grapes?  if <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 5.">thieves</a> by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
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But I have made <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 43.">Esau</a> bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mal. 1: 3.">seed</a> is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he <i>is</i> not.
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve <i>them</i> alive; and let thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Widows.">widows</a> trust in me.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Behold, they whose judgment <i>was</i> not to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 16.">drink</a> of the cup have assuredly drunken; and <i>art</i> thou he <i>that</i> shall altogether go unpunished?  thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink <i>of it.</i>
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For I have sworn by myself, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 24.">Bozrah</a> shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 35: 9.">cities</a> thereof shall be perpetual wastes;
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I have heard a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR report.">rumour</a> from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and an ambassador is sent unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB nations, or gentiles.">heathen</a>, <i>saying,</i> Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
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For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, <i>and</i> despised among men.
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Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, <i>and</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 3 (1-4).">pride</a> of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Also <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 34: 5; Ezek. 25: 14 (12-14); Amos 9: 12; Obad. 1: 18 (8, 18-19, 21).">Edom</a> shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
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As in the overthrow of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24.">Sodom</a> and Gomorrah and the neighbour <i>cities</i> thereof, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
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Behold, he shall come up like a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 7.">lion</a> from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who <i>is</i> a chosen <i>man, that</i> I may appoint over her?  for who <i>is</i> like me?  and who will appoint me the time?  and who <i>is</i> that shepherd that will stand before me?
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Therefore hear the counsel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
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The earth is <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 26: 15.">moved</a> at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
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Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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&#182; Concerning Damascus.  Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; <i>there is</i> sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
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Damascus is waxed feeble, <i>and</i> turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on <i>her:</i> anguish and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sorrow.">sorrows</a> have taken her, as a woman in travail.
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How is the city of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 33: 9.">praise</a> not <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/25b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB forsaken.">left</a>, the city of my joy!
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Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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&#182; Concerning <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/28a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Arabia.">Kedar</a>, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
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Their <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 120: 5.">tents</a> and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/29b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR tent-cloths.">curtains</a>, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/49/29c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 50: 46.">Fear</a> <i>is</i> on every side.
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&#182; Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; for <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 12.">Nebuchadrezzar</a> king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
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Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which have neither gates nor bars, <i>which</i> dwell alone.
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And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them <i>that are</i> in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Hazor shall be a dwelling for <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/33a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB jackals.">dragons</a>, <i>and</i> a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor <i>any</i> son of man dwell in it.
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&#182; The word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that came to Jeremiah the prophet against <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 32: 24.">Elam</a> in the beginning of the reign of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/49/34b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 4.">Zedekiah</a> king of Judah, saying,
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
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And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/36a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB ends, or extremities.">quarters</a> of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
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For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/49/37a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR calamity, or disaster.">evil</a> upon them, <i>even</i> my fierce anger, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
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And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; But it shall come to pass in the latter days, <i>that</i> I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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